Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth, Third Edition
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at
3:51 am
Product Description
This book provides guidance and instruction in yoga for a healthful pregnancy and gentle birth. The central section of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of postures and movements and includes helpful photos illustrating the postures. Throughout, the author gives sage and sensible advice to the mother-to-be and promotes a woman’s right to make her own choices about the birthing environment and the method of her baby’s delivery…. More >>
Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth, Third Edition
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Filed under: Postnatal Depression
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What I was expecting was a book about YOGA for pregnant women and how it influenced and could be used during NATURAL CHILDBIRTH. What I got instead was a running advertisement for “freebirth” or unassisted birth AND some kind of unidentified and unidentifiable and unending lesson in her personal theology.
I did like the same idea in most Unassisted type books: that uninhibited, unimpeded birth in a trusting environment is the best and ideal birth, and the one we all deserve. What I did not like was that the answer, the only answer, is to birth absent of trust and interdependence within the community, and her constant mantra that self-suffienciency was the sign of a true and mature adult.
A Note to Jewish readers: this woman claims to be a Jew ending a cycle of violence by not circumscising her son(s), yet in the prayer to conceive him, she and her husband pray to not only more than ONE G-d, but also to Jesus. Not exactly Jewish.
Rating: 2 / 5
The thing that has always amazed me, and many other people, about Jeannine Parvati, is her uninhibited combination of the power, perceptivity and instincts of an ancient curandera with the skills and sophisitication of a modern professional midwife. I can’t speak from the perspective of a woman, but I was the first to welcome all 3 of my children into this world. At such times, Jeannine Parvati has helped me to contact the macrocosm through my microcosm. She is always able to extrapolate from her own personal experience to the power-giving archetypal, and to communicate that extrapolation in a usable way. “Nine powers of nine flowers,/Nine powers in me combined,/Nine buds of plant and tree./Long and white are my fingers/As the ninth wave of the sea.”
Rating: 5 / 5
A wonderful narrative full of many beautiful pictures! I love this book and the woman who wrote it. She is a star in the birthing community and her work is timeless.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a prenatal yoga instructor and have have had two babies of my own at home… even I thought this book was too out there! If you want someone’s personal account of multiple home births and the astrological signs of everyone she comes into contact with, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, I recommend Yoga Journal/Lamaze’s Yoga for Pregnancy video.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am a woman who has chosen homebirth for both of my children. and had births that were very physically and emotionally challenging. I am also a student of Jeaninne Parvati Baker’s in her mystery school, Hygieia College. This is the letter I wrote to her after recieving this book.
“But my High was that the package from you arrived today. I haven’t yet begun reading lesson two, but I spent the afternoon reading every one of the birth stories in PNY! I was pregnant with my second daughter when I read the first edition, so it was very different re-reading those birth stories now. Having now had a vaginal birth, big baby, huge tear and haemorrhage myself, your birth stories were much more personal to me, and I realise that your freebirths weren’t the “walks in the park” that I perceived them to be before. You are not someone who freebirthed without challenge – you tore and you bled and you delt with it – and that gives me more faith in what you have to teach me. I was also heartened by the fact that even with triumphant, ecstatic births, you still managed to find “something wrong” with each of them, and learning to accept each birth just as it was was part of your journey too. I have spent a lot of time on “I shouldn’t have” – a most malignant untruth. (I shouldn’t have pushed her out so fast, sent Toni home, stayed in the pool etc). Knowing that you went through similar processing assists my self-acceptance. Another realization whilst reading it was that, should I tear in a future birth, it is uplifting to remember that by the time I become aware of the tear, it has already begun to heal. I also related to your description of birth as vision quest. It helped me understand my own inescapable compulsion to keep giving birth at home, and to freebirth from now on.”
Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth helped me come to greater peace with my past and future births.
Rating: 5 / 5